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Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 21:30:48 +0200
From: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Watchdog Mailing List <linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/10 v2] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 09:17:10PM +0200, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
>
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(watchdog_register_device);
> >
> > How about making this EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?
>
> My opinion: the new framework has been created for 2 reasons:
> 1) consolidation of the code that is being repeated in each driver
> 2) to make it possible to support more then one driver.
> If we want to support more then one driver, then the out-of-tree drivers
> would benefit from using the API. Even the non-GPL ones.
I strongly support Arnd. And if it helps getting out-of-tree drivers into the
tree, great! I'd think most watchdog-drivers are out-of-tree because of
laziness, not because of IP?
Regards,
Wolfram
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